iPad and The Democratization of Business Intelligence: Strategic Planning for the Entire Organization

MADRID, May 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- "The alchemy of business intelligence, agile strategic planning, and mobile computing have combined to produce a seriously compelling value proposition for businesses and most important - everyone in the organization," said Bill French, Sr Editor from iPhoneCTO and iPadCTO, his following review provides insights into the emerging app-centric enterprise and how Balanced Scorecard for iPad (http://www.bsc-i.net/) may change the future of strategic planning.

It's safe to say that iPad has become one of the best delivery tools for business intelligence (BI), ever. Its form factor, lightweight design, display, and connectivity has caused rapid adoption by companies that need to extend the reach of their business intelligence data and provide pervasive access to performance results. Indeed, the executive suite and top managers have seen how accessibility to performance results can improve operations and increase management productivity. Aberdeen Group recently reported that employees were twice as likely to use business intelligence data if, and only if, it was available in a mobile accessible format.

iPad has fundamentally opened the door to new opportunities for managers to plan, monitor, and maintain strategic goals and targets in surroundings more suitable to favorable observational contexts.

Its agility and always-available window into operational data make it an ideal strategic dashboard for monitoring and updating business plans. But these benefits are rapidly becoming accessible to more than just managers.

Democratized Business Intelligence

Traditionally, business intelligence has focused on visualizing important operational data for managers and executives. But iPad also broadens the scope of BI benefits by making it relatively inexpensive to include deeper levels of the organization. This is made possible because mobile devices are becoming cheaper and more powerful, and software, such as Balanced Scorecard for iPad (BsC) (http://www.bsc-i.net/) is affordable and simple enough to use by almost everyone in your organization.

Trends show that there's a new definition of "BI participants" within the organization, and rightly so. The democratization of BI and strategic planning is sweeping through organizations, not so much because it's an idea whose time has come, but because the mobile revolution has provided opportunities to see and interact with operational plans and data more easily and whenever and wherever it is contextually important.

There are four "key factors" to include in any BI software in the near future:

- Mobility

- Usability

- Simplicity

- Economicity

Why Balanced Scorecard?

Balanced Scorecard is a widely adopted approach to managing and reporting on strategic goals. Used by more than 60% of the Fortune 500 and thousands of smaller companies, balanced scorecard is a methodology that is soundly reflected in the Balanced Scorecard app. The app simplifies the balanced scorecard strategic planning and management model to help users align business activities to the vision and strategy of the organization Balanced Scorecard also provides features that make it easier to monitor organizational performance against strategic goals, and it achieves this in an experience designed for mobility. To better understand what this app can do for your Business please watch this Video (http://youtu.be/J0Cr6PK8BGk).

It turns out that the balanced scorecard system is agile enough to be beneficial in extremely simple implementations. Balanced scorecard experts agree that it's possible to utilize the balanced scorecard methodology using only a piece of paper and pen, and therein lies the iPad opportunity that this app has captured.

Please read the complete "White Paper" (http://bit.ly/m7Y3L6) to know how BsC can help the success of your Business

About Business & Strategy

Business & Strategy has been a leading consulting firm for over 7 years. They provide to your business an added value through a methodology simple and direct. Their applications help to define and implement business strategy, improve organizational structure, optimize costs and control the fulfilment of objectives. Business & Strategy was founded in 2004 and is based in Madrid, Spain.